Device Bundling

Airtel also plans to approach the regulators to clear up any confusion over providing interconnection points (PoIs) to Jio as it has provided more PoIs to the Mukesh Ambani-owned company than any other telco, said Gopal Vittal, managing director, India & South Asia, at Bharti Airtel.

After PSU banks, the government is likely to infuse capital in two chronically ill telecom PSUs BSNL and MTNL, and the Union Cabinet is likely to take a decision on 4G spectrum allocation to them by the third week of the current month after DoT places the note before it for consideration.

At a high-level meeting at the PMO late Tuesday, it was also decided that the two telcos will frame a Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) to reduce their employee strength, which will be followed by a reduction in the retirement age to 58.